The Foundational Word of God

Lesson outline 3 in the series
The Post Exilic Prophets

Tim Temple

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  1. Overview of Chapter 1:
    1. The Foundation of the Message - vv.1-6
    2. The Focus of the Message - vv.7-17
    3. The Force of the Message - vv.18-21
  2. Details: Point I:
    1. The Foundation of the Message - vv.1-6
      1. The commandment - vv.1-3
        1. The point of command is very obvious: "Return to Me, says the Lord."
        2. And that commandment is fortified by a promised result: "that I may return to you."
        3. This commandment has not gone out of style any time since. God longs to be in intimate fellowship with each one of us, to erase the distance that may have grown between him and us.
      2. The context - vv.4-6
        1. God says, "think of the experience of your fathers. Consider the experience of the previous generations."
        2. They repented, but only after their city was besieged and burned, the people starved and exiled; they repented when it cost them a great deal.
          1. The rebellious leaders of an earlier age who didn't want to hear God's prophets, were all dead.
          2. Even the prophets who were godly spokesmen of an earlier age, were no longer around.
          3. But prophecy does last; the words last; the truth, the statements of God, the determinations the Lord makes, those last.
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